What was Rudolf Steiner?

Recently, on the Anthroposophy Facebook page, there was a lengthy and needed discussion of Steiner’s “nature?”. Over one hundred back and forths. From my seeing, Context is everything, if we understand the style of thinking we call Goetheanism. In the middle 1800’s scientific materialism triumphed in Central Europe. The ideas of a Big Bang and …

Spirits on Fire

I have two friends, Stephen Clarke, and Barbara Gardiner. We met on the Internet. I have posted several of their works to this blog, and below I will provide all the relevant links for both. Another “friend”, Patrick Dixon added the last bit. Barbara read my “Outlaw Anthroposophy” around 1999. She emailed me, and discourse …

more Liz, aka Barbara

Two messages appeared in my e-mail inbox today (the night of the double event: the Full Moon / Eclipse ), from Elizabeth Mackenzie (a Platonist, as described in my article on the Culmination).  I share them because they seem particularly relevant, and give a good example of the kind of “activity” that comes from real Platonists. …

Castles in the Air II – the truth does matter

Castles in the Air II – the truth does matter … Rosemary McMullen wrote, in response to the first Castles in the Air – does the truth matter?: “The social and spiritual blind spots will persist until the “gatekeepers” are able to self-correct. I appreciate your work but its huge size deters me. Meanwhile MysTech …

Requiescet in pace (rest in peace) Rudolf Steiner

Requiescet in pace (rest in peace) Rudolf Steiner A new year awaits. Habits need to be changed, or death results. Where, today, is the Fae spirit we knew as Rudolf Steiner? What did he mean when he said he was joining his karma to that of the Society? In the Imaginative world, his shade can …

Event and Aftermath: the Creation of Love Through Crisis

Event and Aftermath: the Creation of Love through Crisis An individual life is an ongoing puzzle. The surrounding world is an ongoing meta-puzzle, in which we are a “piece”, in a world that is not only not flat, but has an infinite invisible interior to which we are directly connected. Aspects of this complex reality …

Saving Rudolf Steiner’s Legacy, from the Anthroposophical Society

Saving Rudolf Steiner’s Legacy, from the Anthroposophical Society Why I will never give up, and never surrender, to the stupid stuff the Anthroposophical Society does in the name of Steiner, Archangel Michael, and Christ, the Maker. Some examples: 1) the School of Spiritual Science should be rooted in living initiates, instead of in thrall to …